Manchester City are 2/5 with Paddy Power to pick up all three points as they travel to the Stadium of Light on Sunday (2.05pm).

The Citizens qualified for the knock-out stages of the Champions League with an impressive 5-2 win over CSKA Moscow on Tuesday night and are 75/1 to repeat that scoreline against the Black Cats.

Two goals from Sergio Aguero and a hat-trick from Alvaro Negredo secured the win and the City strike force are 3/1 and 4/1 respectively to get the first goal of the game against Gus Poyet’s team on Sunday.

Aguero is joint top-scorer in the Premier League this season with eight goals and the Argentine international is 2/1 to score first for his team or 8/13 to hit the net at anytime over the 90 minutes as her chases his ninth league goal.

The Argentine international to score first and City to beat Sunderland 5-2 is 175/1 in Paddy Power’s Scorecast betting while Aguero to score and City to win is 11/10 in the Wincast market.

City’s strikers have now scored 22 goals between them in all competitions this season and Negredo is looking for his fifth league goal of the campaign after his summer move from Sevilla.

The ‘Beast’ to score against Sunderland and City to win is an 11/8 shot in Paddy Power’s Wincast betting.

Manager Manuel Pellegrini was delighted with his side’s performance of reaching the last 16 of the Champions League for the first time in the club’s history.

“We have a strong team, we have a strong squad, we will see who we will play in February, but I can assure you they will not be very happy to play against us. No one will.” he said.

The Chilean’s side have now scored 18 goals in their last five games in all competitions, (an average of 3.6 goals) conceding just four. City are 13/10 with Paddy Power to score three or more goals against Sunderland.

City’s last three league victories (Everton 3-1, West Ham 1-3 and Norwich 7-0) have been by a minimum of two goals and City can be backed at evens (-1) on the handicap betting or 13/5 (-2) with the online firm.

The Citizens have taken the lead within 17 minutes in their last two games and Paddy Power bet 10/3 that the first goal will come between the 11th and 20th minute while the visitors to the Stadium of Light are evens to score in both halves and 11/5 to win both halves.

A third-minute penalty set City on their way against CSKA and they’re 7/2 with Paddy Power to score a penalty on Sunday.